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The Wishing Tree Trust is a Charity whose aim is to help families who are in crisis by funding a short residential experience that enables each individual within the family to rediscover their inner strengths, envisage change and be empowered to bring this about. The Trust has been set to help fund more families take part in an established series of such programmes which have proven success. Since the year 2000 hundreds of families have benefited from programmes run by Veritas Supported Breaks. These have resulted in averting expensive interventions such as the need for taking children into care, for anti-depressants or other forms of medication, or for the criminal justice system having to act. Instead families are helped to cope and create more positive lives for themselves - and have sometimes come back to help others. The emphasis for The Wishing Tree Trust is 'prevention'. Why wait for serious problems to emerge when symptoms are clearly visible and solutions readily available? Children from any background are at risk from the dangers of modern society, drugs, muggings, gang fights and being attacked simply for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Our children need to be kept safe, healthy and given every opportunity to reach their potential. The breaks are designed to help people to understand the links between choices and outcomes, to take responsibility for their actions, to recover self-respect as well as respect for others. We do not live in isolation, we live in communities and by helping those families at risk we help all our children to stay safe and make a positive difference to all our lives. Families helped include those with experience of violence or abuse, with mental and emotional difficulties, with children 'at risk', or family members displaying anti-social behaviour. Help is needed in your area; in your street; perhaps even in your family; so please help us to help you by sending a contribution to: The Wishing Tree Trust, 3 Broomfield Hall, Enmore, Bridgwater, Somerset TA5 2DZ For more information about how the programmes work, the benefits they bring, or to contract a break for families in your organisation, please go to www.veritassupportedbreaks.com |
